The Council Archives/The Adventures of Jinx

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Short Story

The Council Archives

By Ty Sheedlo

The Council Archives. You'd heard stories at the Academy, of course, but words could not describe the breathtaking magnitude of its contents. The entire history of your city: its glorious achievements, its sinister secrets, painstakingly documented, waiting to be read.

Starring: Caitlyn, Jayce, Jinx, Vi

Mentioned: Benzo, Cassandra, Chross, Claggor, Deckard, Ekko, Grayson, Heimerdinger, Marcus, Mylo, Renni, Silco, Smeech, Tobias, Vander, Viktor, Ximena

The Adventures of Jinx

• Childhood Bomb & Clockwork Monkey Bomb
• Unidentified Undercity Device
• Mechanical Firelight
• Voice

The Enforcer Explosives Unit has assured you that this… creature is defused, but that doesn’t stop your heart from pounding in unison with its strange ticking. You recognize it from sketches, the signature work of the blue-haired bomber from the undercity. It appears to be an early prototype, painted with the same vibrant colors but possessing none of its counterpart’s deadly engineering. What sort of child makes a device like this?

This small mechanical device is a quintessential example of the undercity’s warping of Piltovian technology. Materials that in our fine city would be used to innovate are here seen cobbled together for some delinquent purpose. The needle-like spears that protrude from its face are polished and sterile. You stare, hypnotized by the magnified reflection of your own pupil.

You’ve heard stories of the day when hundreds of these mechanical monsters took to the sky above the Bridge of Progress. Now, fluttering harmlessly in front of you, this firelight hardly seems capable of causing a massive explosion. But Kiramman was there. She’s attested again and again that she saw no remorse in Jinx as her devices swarmed the street, even with her own sister among the teeming masses.

• I
• II
• III

Entry #1

• "We were just kids…"

Entry #2

• "A sister wouldn't abandon me"
• "Family forgives"
• "We were never a family"
• "It's my fault, my fault"

Entry #4

• "I'm sorry"

Entry #5

• ME
• Powder

Entry #6

• "I'm Sorry"

Entry #1

• We are perfect for each other
• We are all broken

Entry #2

• BROKEN, bRoKeN, BrOkEn

Entry #3

• I'm no good
• It won't work, they never work

Entry #4

• Sister says I'm not good enough
• She doesn't say it but she thinks it
• I can see it when she looks at me
• STOP LOOKING AT ME

Entry #5

• All I ever had was her
• and SHE LEFT
• LEFT, LEFT, LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT
• The soldiers marched
• We were always their enemy
• No way to defend ourselves
• ALONE

Entry #6

• I miss her
• I don't need her
• Nothing to miss? What's to miss, sis?
• Miss Vi, all she ever did was LIE
• I'll always be with you Powder
• LOUDER LOUDER
• I'll always BE WITH YOU POWDER
• So where are you now?

Entry #7

• Vander died because of ME
• Claggor and Mylo too
• Powder killed Vander
• Powder died that night too

Entry #8

• A jinx one last time
• Jinx
• Sister said I was a Jinx
• That's all I am now

Entry #1

• TO DO LIST
  • Silco says take care of ██████████
    • I took care alright, Me and Fishbones
    • Fishbones was in the mood to blow something up
    • How could I say no
    • Now I'm taken care of too - the nice kind of taken care of
    • Silco trusts me

Entry #2

• I'm not a kid anymore

Entry #3

• Give Silco his medicine
  • It's not scary anymore
  • He is broken
  • Just like me

Entry #4

• ██████████████
  • Lined up all the little duckies in a row
  • Why did they look so sad?
    • They'll be together after
    • Wherever people after go

Entry #5

• There has to be an after
• Vi and I will go there

Entry #6

• No we won't!
• She doesn't want me
• She never wanted Jinx around

Entry #7

• I have Silco now
• He TRUSTS ME
• VI HATES ME
• He IS THERE FOR ME
• VI HATES ME
• He LOVES ME
• VI HATES ME

Entry #8

• ██████████████
  • They stared at me
  • I closed their eyes
  • But I still see them

Entry #9

• Everyone I've taken care of
• SHUT UP
• They're here
• IN MY MIND

Entry #10

• VI IS HERE TOO
  • YOU'RE A JINX JINX JINX
  • JINX JINX
  • JINX

Trivia

• In the diary of "Jinx":
  • She has calligraphy similar to the yordle language, although she never met a yordle face-to-face on-screen during Act I.
  • Chapters I and II of her diary occurred during her teenage years, after the events of Episode 3.
  • Chapter III occurred when Silco assigned her to build Fishbones at 16 years old, before the events of Episode 4.
  • Jinx begins to manifest symptoms of the mental illness schizophrenia.

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